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North East Secondary Deputy Head, T and L, CPD lead, Science teacher, music and Vinyl enthusiast
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InnerDrive
about 7 hours ago
Students perform how we expect them to đ The Pygmalion Effect shows that teacher expectations shape outcomes more than many realise.
https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/the-pygmalion-effect/
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Lee D
about 12 hours ago
The first follow up in my âGood for all, vital for someâ series on clarity of expectations in the classroom. This one is about how to get a class silent.
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The 'Good for all, vital for some' series #1a: clarity of expectations at all times - gaining silence
Examples of how I have supported ECTs to ensure pupils are clear what is expected of them at all times in lessons
https://open.substack.com/pub/ldonaghy/p/the-good-for-all-vital-for-some-series?r=3zqujv&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Christian Moore-Anderson
6 days ago
Post: â The pros of teaching without powerpoint If teaching is transmission, the presentation is a vital tool. If, we see it as conversing to coordinate the meaning of content, then PowerPoint sits in the way of interaction between teachers and students.
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The pros of teaching without PowerPoint â Christian Moore Anderson
PowerPoint was a central tool in the community of teachers I was inducted into. Almost everyone I knew used it to develop their lessons, or at least obtain a pr
https://christianmooreanderson.com/pros-of-teaching-without-powerpoint/
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Ben Newmark
3 days ago
If inclusion means doing what we have good evidence for all children better with the most vulnerable kids this will work. If it means mainstreaming common adaptations for supposedly "different" children we have little evidence for it will be a disaster. I am very nervous about the direction.
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Mark Enser
4 days ago
I spend a lot of time working with schools and MATs to quality assure and improve geography. One question always sits underneath: what do we actually mean by the impact of the geography curriculum? In this post I try to make my thinking visible.
open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
#GeogChat
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Beyond book looks
Quality assuring the impact of the geography curriculum
https://open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/beyond-book-looks
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Carl Hendrick
11 days ago
New studies on retrieval practice, seductive details, engagement myths, reading instruction, and the cognitive costs of modern technology.
open.substack.com/pub/carlhend...
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The Monthly Dispatch - What's New in Learning Science? - March 2026
New studies on retrieval practice, seductive details, engagement myths, reading instruction, and the cognitive costs of modern technology
https://open.substack.com/pub/carlhendrick/p/the-monthly-dispatch-whats-new-in-f3c?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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James Durran
13 days ago
NEW blog post: on the anatomy of great
#classroom_explanations
and the importance of
#relationship
jamesdurran.blog/2026/03/03/e...
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Explaining in the classroom: the importance of relationship
I see a lot of explaining happening in classrooms, and I did a lot of explaining as a teacher. Itâs a key aspect of instruction, which has been much theorised and written about. For what itâs worthâŠ
https://jamesdurran.blog/2026/03/03/explaining-in-the-classroom-the-importance-of-relationship/
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Carl Hendrick
13 days ago
Reading comprehension is not a skill. Itâs an outcome of what you know. Strategies plateau. Knowledge compounds.
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Cassie Young
14 days ago
âHigh standards and inclusion are two sides of the same coin.â After reading the white paper carefully and discussing it during a SENCo forum this week, Iâve written on the shift in language, and what some of this might mean for schools in practice.
moderncassie.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-sh...
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A shift in language - The White Paper
A shift in language It has taken me a while to digest the contents of the White Paper. I did not want to react to the headlines or rush to j...
https://moderncassie.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-shift-in-language-white-paper.html?m=1
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Evidence Based Education
16 days ago
"As the exam season approaches, older students will likely be receiving (or searching for) helpful revision advice. Responsive Revision offers a different approach. This is a term I have been sharing with teachers, students and parents..." Blog by Kate Jones
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Responsive Revision - Evidence Based Education
As the exam season approaches, older students will likely be receiving (or searching for) helpful revision advice. The quality of advice available varies considerably. In the last decade, teachersâŠ
https://buff.ly/YR47iAb
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SecEd
16 days ago
What happens when students become coâresearchers in schools, working with
#teachers
to find solutions to entrenched problems?
@thatpovertyguy.bsky.social
explains how embedding curiosity & collaboration can change practice & improve outcomes:
buff.ly/1miD6Ex
#teaching
#schools
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Beyond student voice: Involving students in real-world school research - SecEd
How students as coâresearchers in school research partnerships can drive insight, equity and real improvement
https://buff.ly/1miD6Ex
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Ben Newmark
17 days ago
Should probably write this up properly. On what I think is the fundamental flaw in the underpinning principles in the SEND white paper and why I think it makes failure inevitable.
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FLAVOR FLAV â°
20 days ago
Put up some limited edition Public Enemy SHE GOT GAME shirts to raise money for these women athletes.
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Flavor Flav Official Store: Shop Merchandise Now - Flavor Flav Official Store
Shop the Official Flavor Flav store for exclusive merch, music, and more.
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Kate Jones
22 days ago
Check. Adapt. A useful resource for teachers shared by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) "Many misunderstand, so pause and fix. Some are unsure, so adapt support. Most understand, so extend and support."
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Prof Mark Priestley
22 days ago
@curriculumjournal.bsky.social
is now on BlueSky. Please follow
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Mark Enser
22 days ago
In my last Substack piece I looked at the implications of the white paper for curriuclum thinking - today, I turn my attention to what it means for the classroom.
open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p...
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Inclusive geography teaching after the white paper: from principle to practice
What inclusive geography teaching really looks like
https://open.substack.com/pub/enserm/p/inclusive-geography-teaching-after?r=1zych6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Fantastic summary, many thanks.
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Alex (Lamb_Heart_Tea)
23 days ago
DfE White Paper 26 - Literacy and Oracy overview. Key implications (that Iâve gauged from my understanding of it) Hope itâs of use!
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Ben Newmark
24 days ago
The poor state of evidence around what's best for children who find learning harder has meant we've wasted billions already. We're going to waste billions more on things that don't work. We should have begun by looking at what practice is effective and investing in that.
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Ben Newmark
24 days ago
Framing of the white paper is wrong and as a result what's in it isn't going to work. The framing emphasises differences rather than commonalities between children. What happens when all these billions are spent and neither experiences nor outcomes are better?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Children with special educational needs have been let down again and again. That ends right now | Bridget Phillipson
Too many young people go out into the world ill equipped. Weâll change that: weâll give more rights and support to them and their families, says education secretary Bridget Phillipson
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/special-educational-needs-send-reform-bridget-phillipson
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Claire Harley
30 days ago
How do we make decisions in the classroom? A thought process to break down the complexitiies of teaching:
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How do we make decisions in the classroom?
As teachers, we make so many decisions every day that when you stand back and look at what we are doing, itâs amazing to think that we do so much of this automatically.
https://open.substack.com/pub/claireharley123/p/how-do-we-make-decisions-in-the-classroom?r=3w505c&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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InnerDrive
25 days ago
Consider two students with similar abilities. The one with a stronger drive often achieves higher grades đ This article explains why:
https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/ambition-student-grades/
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The impact of drive and ambition on student grades | InnerDrive
Is a student's success at school only determined by their intelligence? Or does their ambition to do well matter, too? Fascinating research answered this...
https://www.innerdrive.co.uk/blog/ambition-student-grades/
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Marc Smith
about 1 month ago
Knowledge isn't the same as understanding. We can know something yet still not understand it. This is perhaps at the heart of the well established epistemological system, currently under threat.
dynamiclearning.substack.com/p/disentangl...
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Disentangling Knowledge and Understanding
In which I ramble on a bit about nuance
https://dynamiclearning.substack.com/p/disentangling-knowledge-and-understanding
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Evidence Based Education
about 1 month ago
Ditching Differentiation? "Itâs fair to say that the term âdifferentiationâ has had its day in education (or at least in England). At one point, it was considered to be an integral element of lesson planning, design and delivery to ensure all learners were involved..." By Kate Jones
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Ditching Differentiation? - Evidence Based Education
Itâs fair to say that the term âdifferentiationâ has had its day in education (or at least in England). At one point, it was considered to be an integral element of lesson planning, design andâŠ
https://buff.ly/YatEuIf
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Tes magazine
about 1 month ago
Where oracy is treated as a tick-box exercise in primary, this overlooks its massive potential to support pupils' writing, says teacher Louise Gaunson, who shares tips for bringing drama into lessons
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How drama techniques can reboot oracy teaching
Oracy shouldnât just be a tick-box exercise, says this primary teacher, who explains how incorporating approaches from acting can help pupils with literacy
https://www.tes.com/magazine/teaching-learning/primary/teaching-oracy-in-primary-schools-support-literacy
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Becky Allen
about 1 month ago
New on Substack: New post: Why does dividing curriculum into knowledge components feel so unstable? Because we're imposing localist structure on a distributed system. The brain doesn't store knowledge in pieces.
profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum...
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Curriculum Is a Localist Model of a Distributed Mind
The problem with dividing knowledge into pieces
https://profbeckyallen.substack.com/p/curriculum-is-a-localist-model-of
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SecEd
about 1 month ago
SecEd Podcast: Our new episode discusses how
#teachers
can create the perfect classroom environment for their students, offering a range of practical tips & quick wins. We focus on four key factors: the physical, the social, the emotional & the learning environment
buff.ly/ZSMJrke
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#schools
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Carl Hendrick
about 1 month ago
On the difference between learning that scales and learning that doesn't, and what a concept from computer science can teach us about where educational technology succeeds and where it reliably fails.
carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-embarr...
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Mastered But Not Understood: Why Learning Doesnât Scale the Way We Think It Does
On the "embarrassingly parallel problem" and what it reveals about the limits of learning technology.
https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/the-embarrassingly-parallel-problem
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Paul Cline
about 1 month ago
"the problem with much classroom feedback is not that it is poorly intentioned, but that it is misaligned. We give feedback as if it will automatically produce learning, when in reality it only produces information." What if we're giving too much feedback? Great post from
@didau.bsky.social
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AR
about 1 month ago
Right, I have done another blog. This one gives advice on how to ensure whole school Inclusion. I am sure there is lots missing, but if you follow this you won't be far off. In my opinion, obviously...
philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/s...
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Strategic Inclusion
My previous blog talked about how we can make our teaching more inclusive. I had lots of responses to this, and one of the key themes of the responses was people discussing things that get in the wâŠ
https://philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/strategic-inclusion/
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Education Endowment Foundation
about 2 months ago
Teachers â want real-time insight into student understanding? Try hinge questions. A hinge question is a multiple-choice question asked at a key moment in a lesson to check whether pupils are ready to move on. A simple but powerful formative assessment tool. Read more:
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Tes magazine
about 2 months ago
If we really want to deliver effective holistic education in schools, then we need to pay more attention to the design of co-curricular activities and skills, writes vice principal Aqeel Ashiq
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Holistic education must be designed â not left to chance
If we want students to leave school with truly meaningful experiences and skills, we must ensure that these are built into school life in a logical, structured way
https://www.tes.com/magazine/leadership/strategy/holistic-education-must-be-designed-in-schools
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Zach Groshell
about 2 months ago
Some of the things we gloss over when talking about the Direct Instruction Follow Through Model
educationrickshaw.com/2026/01/31/w...
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What You Might Not Know About Project Follow Through
People often ask me to talk about Project Follow Through, a landmark federally funded study that compared major approaches to teaching young children at scale. They tell me they enjoy hearing âŠ
https://educationrickshaw.com/2026/01/31/what-you-might-not-know-about-project-follow-through/
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Barbara Bleiman
about 2 months ago
Anyone else hear Joseph Jebelli on Radio 4 this am? So interesting! A brain science corrective to the 'every second counts' bombardment of young people's brains in some versions of 'science of learning' & current trends like SLANT. Staring out the window & taking breaks may help you learn more!
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Alastair Gittner
about 2 months ago
Good article, I stopped doing it for similar reasons. You might also like this (if you don't know it already)
www.cambridge.org/insight/blog...
there is a part 2 aswell.
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Why assessment may tell you less than you think â Part 1
Robert Coe writes a two-part blog on how to improve the value of assessments in the classroom. Part 1 poses questions to the reader.
https://www.cambridge.org/insight/blog/why-assessment-may-tell-you-less-than-you-think-part-1
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Joel Kenyon
about 2 months ago
New Blog Post đ I hate QLA. Originally due to the time it sucked out of my PPA I now know that QLA documents do not provide the information we think they do. I go over the justification for why I ditched QLA and the reasons why you should get rid of it too.
open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...
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Death to the Spreadsheet: Why I Finally Ditched QLA
Question Level Analysis (QLA) is a staple in many schools. It is designed to turn exam results into a roadmap for student progress. But does it actually lead us where we need to go?
https://open.substack.com/pub/joel120193/p/death-to-the-spreadsheet-why-i-finally?r=4r7sq2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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SecEd
about 2 months ago
As we brace ourselves for curriculum reform, what should a modern curriculum look like? Carolyn Roberts â
@ptieducation.bsky.social
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#teachers
& engages learners:
buff.ly/K2GfwTH
#CurriculumDesign
#Education
#Teaching
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Give a little whistle: Knowledge and reform of the national curriculum - SecEd
What is a powerful knowledge curriculum & why does it matter? Explore Future 3 & teachers as curriculum-makers...
https://buff.ly/K2GfwTH
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Carl Hendrick
about 2 months ago
New study on cognitive load shows it's not a single, stable thing that students carry through a lesson. It rises, falls, peaks, and interacts with motivation. 1/4
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Joel Kenyon
2 months ago
open.substack.com/pub/joel1201...
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The 60-Minute Mental Marathon: What Teachers Have to Juggle
Protecting teacher cognitive load through time-neutrality: why we must prioritise high-quality teaching over performative tasks and administrative noise.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joel120193/p/the-60-minute-mental-marathon-what?r=4r7sq2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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AR
2 months ago
So I have written another blog, still under the file 'dull but useful'. This one is parents' evening. As with everything I write, take it or leave it as you please...
philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/p...
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Parents evening â what youâre never told
For this blog, I will be talking about Parentsâ evening for years 1 to 6. Although some of the principles can be applied to Early Years, at our school we adopt a slightly different approach for theâŠ
https://philsalisbury.wordpress.com/2026/01/18/parents-evening-what-youre-never-told/
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Claire Stoneman
2 months ago
New blog on the potency of space
open.substack.com/pub/birmingh...
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A reflection on the potency of space in poetry, school leadership, and life
René Magritte, La Décalcomanie (1966)
https://open.substack.com/pub/birminghamteacher/p/a-reflection-on-the-potency-of-space?r=653jt&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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Tes magazine
2 months ago
âWe can look at a rising graph line and reassure ourselves that learning must have occurred and we are doing a "good" jobâ: Mark Zacharias warns of the dangers of schools becoming obsessed with data
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Data must be our servant in education - not our master
Data is valuable in schools but it doesnât tell the whole picture - and we become overreliant on it at our peril, writes Mark Zacharias
https://www.tes.com/magazine/leadership/staff-management/danger-of-data-in-education-schools
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Evidence Based Education
2 months ago
When tests hit the ceiling: Why âceiling effectsâ matter In this blog, Professor Rob Coe explores the concept through the lens of a real research project using schools' internal assessments. Read it here:
buff.ly/VXsM67a
#EduBlogShare
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When tests hit the ceiling: Why âceiling effectsâ matter - Evidence Based Education
An assessmentâs âceiling effectâ may have immediate implications for a classroom teacher, but itâs also a concern of educational researchers. In this blog, Evidence Based Educationâs Prof Rob CoeâŠ
https://buff.ly/VXsM67a
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Education Endowment Foundation
2 months ago
Metacognition works â but only when pupils are taught how to use it independently. Modelling alone isnât enough. Pupils need to understand how, when, and why strategies support learning as @kirstinmul.bsky.social's blog explains:
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Where do your pupils need explicit support?
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A fantastic blog that identifies and offers some resolution to the slow march of KS4 into KS3.
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Barbara Bleiman
2 months ago
When teachers offer classroom egs, it can be SO valuable. But often there's just a snippet - a ppt slide or piece of writing & it's hard to know the context, intentions & real impact. This, on the power of Talk for Learning, is different. I love it!
#oracy
www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/oracy-i...
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Oracy is the glue
How talk-for-learning can transform reading and writing about challenging texts at KS3, using Jane Eyre as an example
https://www.englishandmedia.co.uk/blog/oracy-is-the-glue-how-talk-for-learning-can-transform-reading-and-writing-about-challenging-texts-at-ks3/
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Otto English
2 months ago
Make this go viral. Labour MP Louise Haigh.
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Louise Haigh
2 months ago
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
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Tes magazine
2 months ago
'Trust inspection must build from a clear and focused understanding of the problem it is trying to solve':
@steverollett.bsky.social
outlines some of the key concerns around the government's MAT inspection plans
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Why risks remain in governmentâs plans for trust inspections
The Confederation of School Trustsâ Steve Rollett questions the overarching strategy behind Labourâs plans for inspecting academy trusts
https://www.tes.com/magazine/analysis/general/risks-in-government-plans-for-mat-inspections
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